Existence of optimal controls for SPDE with locally monotone coefficients

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to investigate the existence of optimal controls for systems described by stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with locally monotone coefficients controlled by different external forces which are feedback controls. To attain our objective we adapt the argument of H. Lisei, (Existence of optimal and epsilon-optimal controls for the stochastic Navier - Stokes equation, Nonlinear Analysis, 51, (2002) 95-118) where the existence of optimal control to the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation was studied. The results obtained in the present paper may be applied to demonstrate the existence of optimal control to various types of controlled SPDEs such as: a stochastic nonlocal equation and stochastic semilinear equations which are locally monotone equations; we also apply the result to a monotone equation such as the stochastic reaction diffusion equation and to a stochastic linear equation.